Technical Product Owner

Summary

Join Able as a Technical Product Owner (TPO) to lead two Agile Scrum teams in delivering high-impact software products for a key client program. You will be responsible for maintaining a healthy and actionable product backlog, aligned with business and technical priorities. This involves backlog grooming, story definition, acceptance criteria, and cross-team coordination. The role requires collaboration with various teams, including product management, UX, engineering, project management, and client stakeholders. You will act as the voice of the customer, ensuring product requirements meet user and business needs while remaining technically feasible. This is a tactical, delivery-focused role with strong strategic awareness, requiring excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Agile product roles (Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or similar)
• Deep experience managing product backlogs and writing/refining user stories for cross-functional software development teams
• A solid understanding of software development concepts and processes (you don’t need to code, but you understand how modern systems are built and deployed)
• Excellent communication skills — you excel at clearly articulating requirements and facilitating team understanding
• Strong collaboration mindset: works closely with engineers, designers, product managers, and client stakeholders with empathy and effectiveness
• Exceptional organizational and facilitation skills — you keep teams focused, aligned, and continuously improving
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English are a requirement

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams — product management, UX, engineering, project management, and client stakeholders — to ensure a shared understanding of product goals and deliverables
• Own and manage the backlog across two Agile Scrum teams: prioritize, groom, and refine user stories to ensure clarity and actionable requirements
• Drive detail and alignment: author and refine user stories, technical requirements, and acceptance criteria at the correct level of granularity; ensure the "definition of ready" and "definition of done" are met
• Ensure sprint success: ensure accuracy in documentation for backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives in partnership with project managers
• Act as the voice of the customer and partner: referencing strategy artifacts, UX insights, and other relevant materials to ensure product requirements reflect user and business needs while being technically feasible
• Proactively manage risks and blockers: anticipate potential delivery obstacles and partner with leads to resolve them early
• Continuously improve: look for opportunities to evolve backlog management practices and agile delivery quality

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise software, healthcare experience, platform products, or systems integration is a plus
• Experience working in client-facing or agency/consulting environments is strongly preferred
• Experience working with generative AI tools and understanding their role in the modern SDLC is a plus

Benefits

• This position is 100% remote within LatAm
• A contract extension is possible, pending our client partnership and individual performance